from IBM Glossary of Computing Terms
http://www.networking.ibm.com/nsg/Gatmst13.htm
Instantiate
In object-oriented programming, to represent a class abstraction with a concrete instance of the class.


from http://www-wn.ike.uni-stuttgart.de/lehre/OO-Dictionary/oo_di...
instantiation- the creation of an instance of a type or class. In the case of the instantiation of a software object, memory is allocated for storing the appropriate attribute values. The constructors associated with the class are
also invoked to ensure the object is created with a legal state.